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how do I eliminate the guest account in Xubuntu 11.10?

Asked by Ron Meek

Guest account can't be eliminated. tried commenting out passwd, shadow, and (I think) group entries. didn't work. don't want unauthorized users. Also tried userdel -r. What's up with the guest account anyway? even windows starts it disabled mode. . If I want someone to use the system, I'll create a user for them. Perhaps there should be a way to create something like a guest account, but it shouldn'be there by default. Thank you for your assistance.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

What is the output of:

dpkg -l | grep dm; lsb_release -a

Thanks

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Ron Meek (ron-in-calgary) said : 		#2

ii bsdmainutils 8.2.3 collection of more utilities from FreeBSD
ii dmidecode 2.9-1.2build1 Dump Desktop Management Interface data
ii dmsetup 2:1.02.48-4ubuntu3 The Linux Kernel Device Mapper userspace library
ii dmz-cursor-theme 0.4.3 Style neutral, scalable cursor theme
ii gnome-time-admin 2.32.0-0ubuntu8 GNOME Time Administration Tool
ii iptables 1.4.10-1ubuntu1 administration tools for packet filtering and NAT
ii libcrypt-passwdmd5-perl 1.3-9 interoperable MD5-based crypt() for perl
ii liblightdm-gobject-1-0 1.0.1-0ubuntu6 LightDM GObject client library
ii libloudmouth1-0 1.4.3-7 Lightweight C Jabber library
ii libquadmath0 4.6.1-9ubuntu3 GCC Quad-Precision Math Library
ii libwildmidi1 0.2.3.4-1 software MIDI player library
ii libxdmcp6 1:1.1.0-3 X11 Display Manager Control Protocol library
ii lightdm 1.0.1-0ubuntu6 Display Manager
ii lightdm-gtk-greeter 1.0.1-0ubuntu6 LightDM GTK+ Greeter
ii passwd 1:4.1.4.2+svn3283-3ubuntu2 change and administer password and group data
ii policykit-1 0.102-1 framework for managing administrative policies and privileges
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 11.10
Release: 11.10
Codename: oneiric

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Best actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

ok, you are using lightdm so you can use this guide:
http://mdeslaur.blogspot.com/2011/10/how-to-disable-guest-account-in-oneiric.html

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Ron Meek (ron-in-calgary) said : 		#4

wonderful. thank you very very much. wish i'd asked earlier. would have saved me a ton of time. strange my original question didn't bring that up, or maybe i just missed it. downloaded and installed vim to do it. and that's a great addition too. again, thanks.